GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1660 (21/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (48 vs 44)
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 18)
GeForce GTX 1660
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1660

21/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 5080
GeForce

GeForce RTX 5080

84/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 44.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 18.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 14207 75605
Night Raid 66328 199650
Port Royal 1455 23275
Solar Bay 18104 161489
Time Spy 5443 33000
Wild Life Extreme 10947 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 64 239
1080p Ultra 49 205
1440p Ultra 35 165
4K Ultra 18 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 51422617 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 119836025 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 4036229 21319213861
Far Cry 6 66564421 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 81453624 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 37302011 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 42322312 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 68624320 306276214111
The Witcher 3 74594121 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 16173 69068
Face Detection (HP) 8691 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3814 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 4931 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8081 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 2227 7905
Object Detection (SP) 4384 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 33497 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 72011 349205
Text Classification (SP) 1586 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 107.7 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 58.6 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.77 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.07 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8078.5 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 301.7 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT —
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU116 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $219 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9500or above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released March 14, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Entry-level High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 1530 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 1785 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 112
Shading Units 1408 10752
Tensor Cores No 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2001 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 79 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 49 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 777 1397
GPU Compute 4928 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 284 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 120 W 360 W
Transistor Count 6 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 21.13 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 86 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 157 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 GeForce RTX 5080
Date — Benchmark
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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